SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 -23 +52
Contract jobs citing SAP 90 71 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.03% 4.09% 5.45%
As % of the Vendors category 8.96% 8.28% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 35 67
10th Percentile £362 £374 £440
25th Percentile £514 £456 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% +6.67%
75th Percentile £747 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £723 £794
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.93 -
25th Percentile - £30.15 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
75th Percentile - £52.96 £148.75
90th Percentile - £59.43 -
Central London median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
% change year-on-year - -71.97% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,004 857 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.90% 49.34% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 571 598
10th Percentile £337 £321 £340
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.14% +0.14%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £762
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £17.41 £20.01 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £35.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.69% -38.26% +177.11%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% -31.33% +100.00%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (27.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.67%) SAP HCM
3 5 (5.56%) SAP ERP
4 3 (3.33%) SAP MDG
5 2 (2.22%) iTrent
5 2 (2.22%) NetSuite
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.22%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (2.22%) SAP GRC
5 2 (2.22%) SAP MM
5 2 (2.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (2.22%) SAP Travel Management
5 2 (2.22%) SAP WM
6 1 (1.11%) Primavera
6 1 (1.11%) SAP CRM
6 1 (1.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (1.11%) SAP R/3
6 1 (1.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) Azure
2 15 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
3 7 (7.78%) AWS
4 6 (6.67%) GCP
4 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.44%) Boomi
5 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.44%) SaaS
6 2 (2.22%) AtomSphere
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.22%) GitHub
6 2 (2.22%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.11%) Matillion
7 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Power BI
2 4 (4.44%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.33%) Metadata
4 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.11%) GIS
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) eggPlant
1 3 (3.33%) JIRA
1 3 (3.33%) Postman
2 2 (2.22%) JMeter
2 2 (2.22%) LoadRunner
2 2 (2.22%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.11%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (1.11%) Selenium
3 1 (1.11%) SilkTest
3 1 (1.11%) SOAtest
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Banking
4 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.44%) Billing
6 4 (4.44%) Local Government
6 4 (4.44%) Retail
7 3 (3.33%) Law
8 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.22%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (16.67%) Analyst
1 15 (16.67%) Architect
2 14 (15.56%) Consultant
3 13 (14.44%) Lead
4 11 (12.22%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (7.78%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.78%) SAP Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Senior
8 4 (4.44%) Cutover Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) SAP Cutover Manager
9 3 (3.33%) Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.33%) Report Analyst
9 3 (3.33%) SAP Project Manager
9 3 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
10 2 (2.22%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) Middleware
1 9 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (7.78%) SOAP
3 6 (6.67%) XML
4 5 (5.56%) .NET
4 5 (5.56%) JSON
4 5 (5.56%) REST
5 4 (4.44%) OAuth
5 4 (4.44%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (3.33%) Kafka
6 3 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.33%) SAML
6 3 (3.33%) Web Services
7 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.22%) HTML
7 2 (2.22%) JWT
7 2 (2.22%) Node.js
7 2 (2.22%) SAP TM
7 2 (2.22%) XBRL
7 2 (2.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) FMCG
4 3 (3.33%) Life Science
4 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) IoT
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Linux
1 3 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.22%) ERP
2 26 (28.89%) Migration
3 23 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (14.44%) Translating Business Requirements
8 12 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.22%) Agile
9 11 (12.22%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 10 (11.11%) Risk Management
10 10 (11.11%) Validation
11 9 (10.00%) Change Management
11 9 (10.00%) Project Management
11 9 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
13 7 (7.78%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.33%) SQL
2 6 (6.67%) Python
3 5 (5.56%) Java
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.22%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.11%) C#
6 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.11%) Korn
6 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.44%) PMP
5 3 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.22%) CAPM
6 2 (2.22%) CIPD
6 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CISM
7 1 (1.11%) CISSP
7 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) ISEB
7 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.78%) GDPR
3 5 (5.56%) PMO
4 4 (4.44%) QA
5 3 (3.33%) GRC
5 3 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.11%) APQC
6 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (1.11%) PSD2
6 1 (1.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.22%) IAG
2 1 (1.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.11%) Control-M
2 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Oracle
2 20 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) Databricks
3 5 (5.56%) Workday
4 4 (4.44%) Google
4 4 (4.44%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.33%) IBM
6 2 (2.22%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.22%) Informatica
6 2 (2.22%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.11%) FIS
7 1 (1.11%) IFS
7 1 (1.11%) Intapp
7 1 (1.11%) OpenText
7 1 (1.11%) Palantir
7 1 (1.11%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.11%) Splunk
7 1 (1.11%) VMware